2

Yii

Whats new?

Alexander Makarov,
Yii core team

Some statistics

Who uses Yii?

*intranet

Why?

1.Well-balanced
2.Stable
3.Flexible
4.Well-documented

2011 beginning of 2012 events

What happened?
5 stable Yii 1.1 releases
Yii 1.1 Application
Development Cookbook
Yii for Eclipse PDT,
CodeLobster
Yii GitHub

Events:
Yii beer party
YiiTalk
YiiConf

First two days

348 watches
61 forks

Now
1134 watches
240 forks

Yii 1.1.11 will be quite interesting

release ;)

Whats bad in Yii 1.1?

AR (finder and record are the same object,
some API).
Some classes are in strange places.
More small things.

The biggest issue is

BC

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2011

Prado, from 2004 Yii 1.0, 2008 Yii 1.1, 2010

Yii 2 team

3 active core developers: qiang, samdark,

mdomba.
github.

PHP 5.3.8+
All classes are
namespaced (\yii) and
w/o prefix
PSR-0

Better structure
Less entities
Keep good ideas

v2

Documentation
Larry Ullman, author of 22 excellent IT-books
and a great article series about Yii will write a
book about Yii2 + will participate in official
documentation writing.
API docs will be at least same quality as 1.1.
Code style guide.
Theres a plan to release documentation tool
to the public.

Yii2: base
Aliases in form of

@yii/base/Component

CComponent
Object + Component
SPL replaced most of
collections
Removed
CFormModel. Now
you can use Model
directly.

class MyComponent extends

\yii\base\Object
{
public $x;
public function __construct($a, $b)
{
//
}
}
$component = MyComponent::newInstance(
array('x'=>10),
'a', 'b'
);

Yii2: View Object

render(), widget(),
beginCache()
viewObject
In a View: $owner =
class that uses view
$this = View.
No need for renderer.
Can be used in console
applications.
CHtml is still there.

Yii2: events
$post->on('add',
function($event) { ...
});
$post->trigger('add',
new Event($this));
$post->off('add',
$callback);
$handlers = $post>getEventHandlers('add'
);

No need to
explicitly declare
before raising
jQuery-like syntax
Behaviors instead of
filters

Yii2: Query object

// Query object
$query = new Query;
$query->select('id')->from('tbl_customer')->limit(10);
$command = $db->createCommand($query);
$this->assertEquals("SELECT `id` FROM `tbl_customer`
LIMIT 10", $command->sql);
// array
$command = $db->createCommand(array(
'select' => 'name',
'from' => 'tbl_customer',
));

Yii2: AR
$customer = Customer::find(2)
->active()
->one();
$customer->name = 'Qiang';
$customer->save();
$customers = Customer::find()
->order('id')
->asArray(true)
->all();

Finder / Model
Can create your own
finder
::model()
Auto quoting.
Method chains.

Yii2: AR
$postFinder = Post::find()
->where(array(
'active' => true
));
if($isPrivate) {
$postFinder->addWhere(array(
'createdBy' => $userId,
));
}
$posts = $postFinder
->mergeWith($anotherFinder)
->all();

Criteria
Can merge two finders
Can add conditions on
the fly

Yii2: AR
tableName(),
relations(), scopes() =
static.
Relations are
HAS_ONE,
HAS_MANY.
link = FKs
via = through
Anonymous functions
for scopes.
"@." and "?" tokens:
own table, external
table.

class Customer extends ActiveRecord {

const STATUS_ACTIVE = 1;
public static function tableName() {
return 'tbl_customer';
}
public static function relations() {
return array(
'orders:Order[]' => array(
'link' => array('customer_id'
=> 'id'),
),
);
}
public static function scopes() {
return array(
'active' => function($q) {
return $q>andWhere('@.`status` = ' . self::STATUS_ACTIVE);
},
);
}
}

Yii2: AR
$customers =
Customer::find()->
asArray()->all();

$customers =
Customer::find()->active()
->all();

foreach (Customer::find()
as $customer)

$customers =
Customer::find()
->where('name like :name',
array(
':name' => '%customer%
))->order('id')->all();

$count = Customer::count()
->value();

TODO (if there will be enough time)

HTTP (CURL) wrapper

Package manager
Mailer
Twitter Bootstrap
Debug toolbar
Console requirements
More helpers

jQueryUI-based widgets
Commercial support

1 or 2?

Dont wait. Work with stable one.

When?
Before alpha code will be
put into public github
repository we need to
finish at least these
things

Base for caching

Base for i18n
Controller + webapp
Base for widgets
URL manager

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2-design-discussions-for-yii20/

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